Flag flown upside down as sign of distress outside of US State Department building today

[wagyusneakers@lemm.ee]

Non Americans don't understand and assume we have the same liberties as them.

"Just do die in the street and achieve nothing" Isn't the compelling moral argument many Canadians seem to think it is.

[realitaetsverlust@lemmy.zip]

Why not go to sleep? Then wake up later and get in touch and involved.

Because that would require more effort than posting a comment online.

[ouroboros@lemm.ee]

This is the only post that matters.

[texas_hangover@sh.itjust.works]

What are YOU doing that's useful? Besides blustering on the internet that is.

[bronzebeard@lemm.ee]

I shouldn't be surprised by your lack of reading comprehension. I'm not really sure what you're even responding to, none of it lines up with anything I just said.

And again, telling you he's going to break the law doesn't mean he's allowed to break the law even if he is voted in after saying it.

This is that half of America is functionally illiterate nonsense the rest of us have to deal with.

[carbonbasednpu@lemm.ee]

I don't think people outside the US realize how hard people have fought to stop this from happening. How this was a slow decent that people have been doing their best to prevent for literal decades and the people in power just kept letting it happen. I am not saying that the democrats are as bad as the republicans but they have been complacent in letting the GOP destroy all the checks and balances that were available to them in the past. They should have blocked the SC picks but did not because it would have been bad form.

[plaidbaron@lemmy.world]

OP isnt an American...

[carbonbasednpu@lemm.ee]

Either go protest and get shot or you clearly asked for your rights to be stripped away feels like a slap in the face for anyone who is directly affected by the things that is happening and is extremely demotivating. It feels like someone saying that somehow it was your individual fault that states that you are not in did not vote the way you would have liked them too.

[anegro_montoya@sh.itjust.works]

They do care. They're ok with people in authority hurting them but if a minority does, someone lesser than them, they'll burn a fucking neighborhood down to get them.

[fostermolasses@leminal.space]

Yes, but actually no.

Children, regardless of "magical thinking" naturally do not possess cognitive dissonance. Cognitive dissonance is a learned skill instilled into them by other adults. Everytime a kid asks "what's wrong with daddy?" when he's lying on the floor after having too much to drink, and the housewife replies "he's just sleeping honey, now stop asking stupid questions" we gradually learn to deny our senses, critical thinking and reasoning skills. Children don't need statistics or scientific journal entries, they can sense when something is wrong. If they see one of these protests outside on the way to the grocery store with mommy they can put two and two together without having to turn on CNN. Yet full grown adults can convince themselves a new pizza parlor must be opening.

A child's mind is better at discerning nonsense from the truth than you realize. It is we who repeatedly teach them that they are wrong.

[anegro_montoya@sh.itjust.works]

Because freedom is propaganda unless you fit certain demographics. Otherwise, everyday you're just surviving.

White dudes can walk around heavily armed, try that as a black dude and see how free you are. We can't even go for a run in a lot of places without the cops or neighborhood watch showing up.

So shut the fuck up and stop blaming people caught in this bullshit and do something to help.

[lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org]

The 2A is there for you to do things, but it's not only simply about rising up. It's about instrumentalization. When every citizen can be armed "just in case", all you need is for that to statistically compound into a Luigi or two getting three lucky marked shots on the tyrant du jour.

[pagingdoctorlove@lemmy.world]

I agree with you. Hopefully we get to see the electoral college and two party system abolished in our lifetime.

[petteriskaffari@lemmy.world]

Calling for action.
Could also be directed to Europeans btw, with obesity and fascism also growing hand in hand there.

[petteriskaffari@lemmy.world]

In a democracy, however flawed it may be, politics are still the result of a large part of the population's will. Which is strongly influenced by propaganda of course, and without much thought of all the consequences that it may have, but still. Protest against these politics can come in many forms, depending on how strongly people are affected by it, never mind how exhausted people think they might be.

Then there's also the military, does anybody here have any insight how they feel about the recent political changes that have been carried through?

[petteriskaffari@lemmy.world]

The US is not the only democracy that is currently endangered. Europe can easily follow suit, South America in some parts as well, as we've seen.

Freedom doesn't come freely, it has to be fought for, hard, time and time again.